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Glenda Jackson has made it plain in recent interviews that although triumphant acclaim met her performance in the title-role of King Lear at the Old Vic in 2017, she didn’t care for aspects of Deborah Warner’s staging.

Jackson has now returned to the role on Broadway, in a production directed by American theatre’s current whizzkid Sam Gold, and one would be curious to know what her views are of his interpretation – a far more eccentric and contentious affair than Warner’s.

Gold has set the play inside a majestically gilded box that could be read as a reference to the excesses of Trump Tower, though the idea of Lear as a bloated plutocrat is not one that is explored any further. Dress is modern,...